Google donates $2 million to Wikimedia Foundation

Wikimedia Foundation announced today that Google has donated $2 million to help continue the development of Wikipedia and other projects. The funds are intended to support Wikipedia’s bandwidth costs and “multimedia needs”.

“Wikipedia is one of the greatest triumphs of the internet,” Google co-founder Sergey Brin said in a statement. “This vast repository of community-generated content is an invaluable resource to anyone who is online.”

Since the launch of Wikipedia in 2001, individuals around the world have made more than 958,000,000 edits to the site, according to the organization’s statistics counter.